Late dinner at Skopik&Lohn

BRAISED PORK CHEEKS WITH OKTOPUS AND PEA CREAM

To have a decent dinner at 21:30 during the week isn’t that easy – most kitchens close at 22:00, theirs does at 23:00. So we went for Skopik&Lohn, which has been on my to-do-list for a long time now. I’ve always been seeing the lovely garden and the fancy interior, telling myself to go there one day.

Skopik&Lohn garden
Skopik&Lohn garden
Skopik&Lohn interior
Skopik&Lohn interior

The restaurant’s style and atmosphere is just magic – the wooden panelling, the neat table settings, the interior design by Austrian artist Otto Zitko and the sunnyboy-waiters in their white jackets – everything just adds up to an atmosphere of a french brasserie somewhere in stylish Paris. The crowd is classic bobo – you have journalists, creatives and opposite of us was even a sugar daddy with a blonde hottie in a fur coat. You have to like (or at least accept) that in order to be comfy there.

The waiters were friendly but quite unattentive (not pouring wine/water, not asking etc.). For the couvert (2.5€ !) they offered baguette and salted french butter:

Skopik&Lohn couvert
Skopik&Lohn couvert

We ordered half a liter of the house red, which is very well priced (8€). It turned out to be a light, quite pleasant company for the evening (though it was served too warm). Then we started of with two entrées:

Tomato risotto with buffalo mozarella and poppyseed
Tomato risotto with buffalo mozarella and poppyseed
Beef tartare
Beef tartare

The risotto was nice, though not thrilling. Nice fresh tomato taste with a big junk of decent buffalo mozarella. For my taste the rice was slightly too hard, but over the question of the perfect risotto-consistency small wars have been fought 🙂 The poppyseed however didn’t add any significant taste. The beef tartare was pleasing, well temperatured and very tasty. The cream and capers added a nice twist to the fresh meat.

Then the main course:

Green Salad
Green Salad
BRAISED PORK CHEEKS WITH OKTOPUS AND PEA CREAM
BRAISED PORK CHEEKS WITH OKTOPUS AND PEA CREAM

My company went for a green salad. They charged 4.5€ for it…which is quite…ambitous for some salad leaves thrown on a plate. I had pork cheeks with oktopus and pea cream: The pork cheeks were nice and fatty (though a little bit tasteless), the octopus had just the perfect consistency. Pea cream….was there too. Don’t get me wrong – the dish was good (and the portion was quite big) but it didn’t really make an impression on me.

CHOCOLATE GÂTEAU WITH CHERRIES AND MASCARPONE
CHOCOLATE GÂTEAU WITH CHERRIES AND MASCARPONE

For dessert I had a gâteau which was served warm with a liquid chocolate core. Very nice, not too sweet and very savory. It had some mascarpone and cherries on the side.

Honestly I left the place with very mixed feelings: It is definetely overpriced – 1 or 2 euros off on every dish would be fairly justified (we payed 65€ for everything). The food is fair average, not more. But the place is just magic and incredibly beautiful – definetely a place to take your girlfriend to…

Timon
Spracharbeiter. Kommunikator. Sprecher. Trainer. Historiker. Leidenschaftlicher Koch. Foodie.